JournalLive - Tag - affordable housing

Sites earmarked in Blyth to build 164 affordable council homes

JournalLive — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

FIVE separate sites in Northumberland’s biggest town have been earmarked for development under ambitious plans to build more than 1,300 affordable homes in the county over the next five years.

1,356 affordable Northumberland homes planned in new strategy

JournalLive — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

MORE than 1,350 affordable homes could be built in Northumberland over the next five years as part of a new strategy aimed at tackling a serious shortage of accommodation for local people and young families.

Ladder stays out of young buyers’ reach

JournalLive — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:00:00 GMT

FIRST-time house buyers in the North-East countryside have been warned they may miss out on the Government’s plans to provide more affordable housing.

Tory housing plans to boost rural areas

JournalLive — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:30:00 GMT

RADICAL proposals to provide affordable rural housing were outlined yesterday in a major report now being considered by Tory leader David Cameron.

North property prices soar

JournalLive — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT

HOUSE prices have risen faster in the North-East than in the rest of the UK in the past five years, pricing thousands of people out of the market.

Assembly’s role over new homes rapped

JournalLive — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT

THE Government’s new housing policy for the North-East was under fire last night after ministers revealed it will be implemented by the body that they scrapped last week.

More homes needed

JournalLive — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT

THE North-East will face an urban-rural divide if more is not done to tackle the region’s growing housing problems.

A few home truths

JournalLive — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Dedicated affordable housing officers should be used by North-East councils to help ease the problems facing some home buyers.

Villages: theme parks for the rich

JournalLive — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT

The North countryside is becoming a "theme park for the rich" more than a year after the Government pledged to tackle the shortage of affordable rural homes in the region.

Rural community hears back from advisers

JournalLive — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:00:00 GMT

A government rural commission is to revisit a County Durham community.